Sick yobs allegedly urinated on a disabled woman as she lay dying outside her home - and filmed it on a mobile phone.

Paramedic Mark Lakinski said a bucket of water was thrown over his sister Christine, 50, and then shaving foam was sprayed on her face and body.

She was then allegedly urinated on, before planks of laminate flooring she had been carrying were laid over her. Passers-by discovered her body and raised the alarm.

Miss Lakinski, who had the mental age of a teenager, lived by herself in Hartlepool. She was on her way home and was just about to open her front door when she collapsed on July 26.

A friend broke the news of her death to her brother. And as he tried to cope with his grief, he was told the shocking way she had been treated.

Mr Lakinski, 51, a paramedic from Billingham, told the Evening Gazette: “How could anyone do this - it’s just sick.

“On the night she died, she had been to a friend’s house around the corner, and she had been given some strips of laminate flooring to take home.

“She was also carrying a bag of shopping. As she put the laminate down to open her front door, she collapsed.

“As she fell, she hit her head on the door. We’ll never know if she was dead at this point.

“I was stunned when I later found out she had been defiled in such a disgusting way.”

She was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. A post-mortem examination revealed Miss Lakinski had been suffering from a chronic digestive condition. An inquest found she had died from natural causes.

Cleveland Police confirmed that a 27-year-old man had been charged with outraging public decency and will appear before magistrates in Hartlepool.